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Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia 1150Th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Missionaries CYRIL AND METHODIUS IN GREAT MORAVIA 1150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE MISSIONARIES A historically oriented exhibition project on the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of the Byzantine mission of Constantine/Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. 5th March – 29th September 2013 The Palace of Noble Ladies of the Moravian Museum, Zelný trh 8, Brno May 2013 – August 2013 Modrá at Velehrad (open-air museum) – presentation of a selected part of the exhibition October 2013 – December 2013 Waldstein Riding School, Prague The project consists of the following events: 1. Exhibition Saints Cyril and Methodius. Time, Live, Work 2. Exhibition Cyrillo-Methodian Traces in Music, Theatre and Literature 3. Exhibition Cyrillo-Methodian Mission (Modrá at Velehrad) 4. Exhibition Reception of the Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition in Popular Culture 5. Exhibition of photographs From Moravia to the Time Immemorial 6. Exhibition Cyril and Methodius. History and Reflections in Arts Accompanying activities: An “open air” theater performance studied exclusively for the area of the Bishop’s Courtyard of the Moravian Museum in cooperation with the Brno City Theater, a festive closing of the exhibition Festive fireworks on the occasion of the celebrations of the arrival of the missionaries to Moravia will be part of an international competitive festival of fireworks – Ignis Brunensis A multimedia guide for the so-called smart devices, part of which will also be sequences from the prepared four part played documentary film of the Czech Television about Cyril and Methodius Celebration of the International Day of Fathers – A Night in the Museum with Cyril and Methodius (an interactive project devoted to the presentation of science in a comprehensible way) Organizer: Exhibition projects 1-5 are organized by the Moravian Museum in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences in Brno, v. v. i., the Museum of Moravian Slovakia and other memory institutions. Project 6 is organized by the Moravian Museum and the Olomouc Museum of Art in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences in Brno, v. v. i, the Museum of Moravian Slovakia and other memory institutions. Accompanying events are organized by the Moravian Museum in cooperation with the Brno City Theater and SNIP&Co Company. Ad 1: Saints Cyril and Methodius – Period, Lives, Work Date: 5th March – 29th September 2013 Venue: The Palace of Noble Ladies of the Moravian Museum The aim of the project is to introduce the general cultural and social phenomenon of the Cyrillo-Methodian mission with an emphasis on the fundamentality of its impact on the formation of Czech national society. A top-ranking historical and archaeological presentation of materials from research conducted by the Moravian Museum and partner institutions dealing with Great Moravia before, at the time and after the mission of the missionaries. The research has been conducted for more than half a century. The structure of the exhibition: • Social circumstances – establishing power elites of Moravian Slovakians samples of late Bronze industry of the Avar character, samples of Caroline findings, tomb structures belonging to male and female elite, a model of a fortified settlement as a center of the emerging power, documentation on the origin of the principality of Moravians-Great Moravia in the early stage • Religious circumstances – survival of the traditional conceptions of faith and the beginnings of Christianity, models of cult places and the oldest churches. Supplemented with small objects (archaic crosses from tombs and the like). Written relics. Attempts of Rostislav to establish an independent Church organization. Documentation on the early phase of Christianizing: access to Moravia for missionaries etc. • Byzantine mission of Constantine and Methodius to Moravians: An excerpt from the Life of Saint Constantine-Cyril (quotation from the letter of invitation which Rostislav, the Moravian Prince, sent to the Byzantine Emperor Michael III). • Who are Constantine and Methodius (till 863): the legend titled The Life of Saint Constantine-Cyril, pictorial materials from Thessaloniki (motives of Saint Demetrios basilica – a favorite church of the brothers). The way the mission to Moravia could probably take. • Constantine and Methodius in Moravia (863 to 867): A three dimensional presentation of Constantine and Methodius in a form of “statues”, the foundation of the school, the Glagolitic alphabet. Supplemented with small objects from collections. Models of churches in Staré Město at “Špitálky”, at Pohansko and in Uh. Hradište-Sady. • Constantine and Methodius in Rome (868 to 870) and Methodius in the captivity in Bavaria (871-873): The approval of the old Slavic books written in the Glagolitic alphabet, the death of Cyril-Constantine, Methodius as a priest and a papal legate for Slavic countries with the seat of Saint Andronic in Sirmio, the subsequent captivity in Bavaria. • Methodius and Svatopluk – the most important personalities in Great Moravia: Great Moravia during the reign of Prince and King Svatopluk (871 to 894), the form of the territorial expansion of the Great Moravian Empire, the destruction of the Frank army at “Rastislav’s old/ancient city”, the installment of Svatopluk as a ruler of Moravians, weapons and equipment, a tomb belonging to warriors, video depicting a combat scene. Findings rich in female units, a model of the magnate’s seat in Staré Město and in the Na Dědině locality, the so-called palace in Mikulčice and the magnate’s courtyard in Břeclav- Pohansko. A view of the settlement in the Mikulčice fortified settlement. • Methodius as a papal legate for Slavic countries and Archbishop of the “holy Church of Moravia” (873 to 885): return of Methodius to Great Moravia, baptism of the ruler in Vislansko and the Přemyslid Duke Bořivoj in Moravia, the installation of Methodius as an archbishop, the church center in Uherské Hradište-Sady (complete, including a settlement and a long hall-like structure, as a probable seat of Methodius). Presentation of architectonic parts: the floor, building material-Roman bricks, painted coat, mortar, roofing, and the like, reconstruction of the grave inside the chapel, other graves inside church buildings. A combination with the video projection created in the open-air museum in Modra, quotations from The Life of Methodius about his death, the place of his burial and events that took place in Moravia after his death in connection with his disciples. • Religious circumstances in the final period of Great Moravia (886-905): After the death of archbishop Methodius – the Nitra bishop Wiching, a Benedictine monk and a priest, shortly in the lead of the Moravian church, his escape to Bavaria. An installation consisting of graves of the so-called vampires, possibly of a poorer grave, a model of a “pagan” structure from Pohansko (“pagan land”). The origin of the 8th church in Mikulčice outside the area of the fortified settlement, a model of this simple church. • Situation in the first half of the 10th century: In 900 four new bishops, an emergence of two new bishoprics, termination of the Moravian state in 905, a “primitive” church II at Pohansko close to Břeclav, presentation of findings and a model Ad 2: Cyrillo-Methodian traces in music, theater and literature Date: 5th March – 29th September 2013 Venue: The Palace of Noble Ladies of the Moravian Museum The aim of the project is to introduce artistic and educational reflections of the Cyrillo- Methodian tradition in music, theater and literature. These are presentations of art events and artifacts from the spheres of the individual arts. The sphere of music: Leoš Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass – one of the vintage spiritual music compositions of the 20th century. The origin and development of the church old Slavonic text, linguistic modifications and rewritings done by Professors Vajs and Weingart and Janáček’s composition of the Glagolitic Mass. Documentation related to the first presentation of the composition. Facsimile, rarely originals of Janáček’s rewritings of the Church Slavonic texts, his score autograph or transcription. Janáček’s relation to the Cyrillo-Methodian Cult in Brno in the 2nd half of the 19th century, or in the Augustinian monastery in the Old Brno. (Significant representatives of the Cyrillo-Methodian movement in Moravia were the abbot of the monastery Cyril Napp and composer Pavel Křížkovský, who is also the author of the composition called Saints Cyril and Methodius). L. Janáček’s letters to his uncle Jan from the feast on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Saint Cyril at Velehrad (1869, he took part in it together with Křížkovský). Photographs, letters and documents related to the issue. The sphere of theater: Dramas related to the issue (Vojtěch Martínek: Svatopluk – in a printed form; Václav Kliment Klicpera: Svatopluk – in a printed form; Josef Václav Frič: Svatopluk and Rastislav – in an electronic form). Presentations to the issue (Vojtěch Martínek: Svatopluk – premiere on 23rd December 1918, Old theater at Veveří in Brno, direction Jiří Mahen, 16 costume designs (Auersvald) and photographs (Anděla Novotná in the role of the princess; Frank Wollman: Great Moravia – premiere on 28th October 1948, Svobodné divadlo, Brno, a repertoire poster, an invitation; Eugen Suchoň: Svatopluk – premiere on 26th October 1968, Oldřich Stibor’s Theater, Olomouc, the repertoire poster, the program, photographs. The sphere of literature: Fiction
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